I Am Not Sidney Poitier Quotes.

1. "Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier

2. "It’s a bitch, ain’t it? The things we assume."
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier

3. "Why are people so fucked up? I asked Maybe you do need college, Poiter, Everett said. You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It’s because they’re people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody."
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier

4. "Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was. I flew with confusion always parallel to me, and a whole internal chase at my rear. The one matter that was not confusing to me, but seemed to escape all the others, was the fact that the only thing that was certain to become obsolete, would necessarily become wearied and worn, was the truth. I knew this in spite of the truth that I had had little truck with the truth in my life. It was not that I considered myself a resident in a den of lies, but rather that my history was shrouded and diced and soaking wet with hysteria and contradiction. Contradictions or no, my trajectory through life, though different from most, was, nonetheless, a trajectory."
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier

5. "I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales."
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier